U.S. Constitutional Amendment: Legislative Accountability

Current successor This proposal is preserved as part of the public development record. The current successor is: Proposed Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: Public Qualification and Required Congressional Judgment DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22314241 The successor materially expands and tightens the qualification, legislative-identity, bicameral-duty, continuity, default-administration, and bounded-review architecture while preserving the underlying objective of requiring an attributable congressional judgment after extraordinary public or governmental qualification. This artifact is a model constitutional amendment designed to strengthen legislative accountability by requiring recorded floor consideration of introduced legislation once public or governmental threshold triggers are met. The amendment does not compel passage of any bill and does not substitute public pressure for legislative discretion. Its purpose is narrower: to prevent persistent procedural suppression of recorded accountability while preserving debate, germane amendment, chamber sequencing, rejection, and the Senate’s cooling function. It establishes procedural release mechanisms through citizen petitions, local-entity resolutions, and state-legislature resolutions. This is a public-use constitutional artifact intended to be printable, shareable, and discussable on its own. Supporting explanation is intentionally kept in the repository and record description rather than bloating the amendment text itself.